Wednesday, July 16, 2014

Collecting inspiration north of the Arctic Circle.


I’m just home from a fantastic tour north of the Arctic Circle. To a familiar place just like so many years before. We spent 2 x 10 hours in car both over and under mountains:


all the way from Bergen to Skjerstad in Salten. A fantastic tour. Crossing the Arctic Circle we knew we were almost at our goal.


Outside the Arctic Circle Centre there is a beautiful pillar of local pink marble:


We spent some wonderful, WARM summer days at and around Skjerstad. This was the view from the car-window on the road to Bodø


and one of the bridges over Saltstraumen


Even on a gloomy day ther are beauty in an overgrown garden


And of course, I had to take the usual trip up at my favourite place, Skarvhamran, a very windy hill crest, where the pines grows very slow, gets crooked, old and dies eventually, just to stand as dried sculptures.


And at the top I found these three charming birches:


Well back in Bergen, I headed south to Løkken in Denmark, to celebrate my brothers 70thbithday. Here was a totally different landscape, no mountains but charming bathing huts at the beach



And turning around I was met by this wonderful blue sea

So many impressions to keep me busy through the winter, hopefully some of it will end in one of my quilts.

2 comments:

  1. So interesting report and very beautiful pictures, Greta! Thank you for sharing! This is exactly will be an inspiration!

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  2. Those of us that have not yet been to Scandinavia can't imagine a summer there! Lovely photos.

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